| Show A SOCIAL FAILING Falsehoods and Falsifiers Discussed by Rev P S Thacher Rev P S Thacher of the Unitarian church preached an instructive sermon lermo yesterday morning on the theme A Failing The text was from the epistle e to the Ephesians fourth chapter chap and verse verae away lying speak man truth with his neighbors After showing Mowing how people are un untruthful truthful in selling adulterated goods as genuine issuing i prospectuses pt of Invest Investment ment meR offering mom interest than any honest investment can produce Mr Thacher spoKe of the insatiable desire for 10 sensational gossip an appetite that grows by the garbage that Jt It feeds upon From a fact small as the egg of ot a humming bird there is hatched out at last Jast nobody knows how bow a aslander slander big as an ostrich o and a the mean thing never grows lean Jean in ID its flight but the farther it goes the fatter It grows Worse Wor e than the fangs ef 1 a rattlesnake te a cruel and aad lying tongue Then there is 18 controversial lying tHe tae r continued false allie preten pretensions social hypocrisy but ut worst of all there IK it religious rell us falsehood the profession of ot faith people e do not be lieve We W hear about liberal ortho I doxy Orthodoxy is Galvanism pure and simple What is caned called liberal or orthodoxy orthodoxy is Js Unitarianism How good people can believe and teach Unitarian Unitarianism ism I under the guise of orthodoxy y is one of the problems I cannot solve One of the greatest dangers of the day is thit general atmosphere of insincerity Which is fast producing a skepticism not hot as to any aBY or all theologies but as asto to 10 the very existence of intellectual good faith There is 18 a curse carse upon ev everything connected with falsehood All AllIta its Ita rotes have thorns under the leaves Its n Joys are only other forme fonne of melan c iy ly Its Ita sunshine is ft mockery Its life an in death Those Tho who always speak peak the truth must expect to have missiles ml lles thrown at them tJ m But these win will only make them feel te that to be hated by the weak and wicked is one proof that t they are right ri ht If we are called fanatical ical and aDd infidel l because we speak the truth the better for ue and the worse for tor those Who bo wrongly judge us True Truemen Truemen men outlive bad names and become the landmarks of history Posterity I p ces its garlands upon he graves of those who were persecuted by the fathers lathe If we are devoted to tile the truth the e t fear of what others will say ay will wm die away and disappear jut just as 8 the deaf dead leaves of autumn aurum decay in the raJa rain and enrich the soil for the coming summer |
